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My view on Gentoo
(If you want to sync from my overlay, use this gensync config )
What i praise in portage is the possibility to distribute on my LAN, my patches & my own software.
See: how i distribute my code on my network with "portage".
Expectations
The basic idea of the portage system is great, but my feeling about the gentoo developers community
isn't very good (i think it's not democratic enough).
My work aims are probably very different from theirs. I don't want to dedicate time to maintaining ebuilds,
I just want to help fix bugs, submit new ebuilds, but i don't want to be expected to eternally maintain.
Closed doors on IRC
With this my approach i didn't find way to the #gentoo-dev channel (it's a read-only channel, for non invited).
I would have liked to ask but ... nothing. So, in case i need something i can just try in #gentoo-portage, or
#gentoo.
I find it quite offensive, not being able to ask, just see, very often off-topic discussions.
So i don't follow the (read only) channel anymore.
This was so 3 years ago and is still now:
IRC:
on #gentoo
mmc: how to express DEPENDency on either libpq or postgresql packages?
after an hour of silence:
/join #gentoo-dev
mmc: how to express DEPENDency on either libpq or postgresql packages?
and I get:
*** 404 vinge.freenode.net mmc #gentoo-dev Cannot send to channel
Submitting ebuilds
I submitted some very simple ebuilds (mirrordir, and mempeak) in the first months of my gentoo experience,
but the lenghty procedure put me off to follow it in any way. Since then i just have my PORTDIR_OVERLAY directory
publicly accessible (use gensync!), and i don't even submit them in bugzilla (with some rare exceptions).
My problems with Portage
But this my work on patching is not well supported. As my bugs in the bugzilla confirm,
my quite old feature requests are ignored, refused.
my bugs
This is a log of my chat about those 2 feature requests:
irc log
links
init scripts
dependencies
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/etc/portage/package.c{,xx}flags feature